IBM - Dyrektorzy IT - Zarządzanie informacją

Improving your data governance practices can help safeguard your corporate information and satisfy auditors and regulators.

Abstract: In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving process failures and data mismanagement have gained international media attention. Caught off guard by these failures, the organizations impacted by them have struggled with eroded brand confidence, lost business, and in some cases, legal liability.

Incidents such as these have catapulted corporate governance to the top of the boardroom agenda and made it one of the most important strategic priorities for companies and governments throughout the world. Embedded in nearly every aspect of an organization, IT plays its own increasingly critical role in governance initiatives. Foremost among these challenges is the need to effectively manage and control the mountains of data that reside within different parts of the organization.

Data is at once an organization’s greatest source of risk and greatest source of value. Poor data management often means poor business decisions and results, and greater exposure to compliance violations and theft. For example, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States, the equivalent European Sarbanes Oxley and the Japanese Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (J-SOX) dictate a balance between information access and appropriate use as mandated by rules, policies and regulations.

On the other hand, the ability to leverage clean, trusted data can help organizations provide better service, drive customer loyalty and spend less effort complying with regulatory policies. Effectively leveraging information also brings with it the promise of increased innovation by optimizing people and processes through creative uses of information.